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Step 2- Career Exploration

According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, there will be 1,000,000 more computer science jobs than computer science students by 2020 and computer programming jobs are growing at 2X the national average (see graphic below).

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Browse the Occupational Outlook Handbook to see what types of careers are available for computer science graduates and what those jobs typically pay. Notice that the median annual wage for computer and information technology occupations was $79,390 in May 2014, which was higher than the median annual wage for all occupations of $35,540.

Individually, find a computer science job posting that looks interesting to you. You can use indeed.com or dice.com to search for job postings. Discuss your job posting with your team and why you think it would be an interesting job.

Each team member should write a blog post about the job posting they chose. Why did you choose it? What are some of the skills listed for the job posting? Elaborate on what you think someone in that position does on a daily basis.

As a team, create another blog post in which you brainstorm and build a list of industries that would have careers related to computer science. Some examples might be education or manufacturing. Add why you think computer science might be important to those industries.